Create a Thriving No-Growth Economy

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Today’s economy is like an invasive pioneer plant — valuing growth above all else and using resources at an ever-accelerating rate. Pioneer-dominated ecosystems eventually either collapse or mature. Like an ecosystem, a mature economy doesn't need to grow to improve, evolve, and enrich itself.

Instead of:a stagnant or collapsed growth economy with high unemployment and other problems stemming from overshoot, recession and depression in the absence of alternatives.

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